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So next week I expect to see the wall-mounted, mahogany bezeled version that refreshes the front page of the NYT or the Times of India each hour. Perfect gift f

So next week I expect to see the wall-mounted, mahogany bezeled version that refreshes the front page of the NYT or the Times of India each hour. Perfect gift for that person who has everything. (From a thread a month or so ago, where someone did this as a maker, now it's much more commercially viable)

BillinghamJ 6y ago
The Visionect one is around the same price as this but substantially larger - https://www.visionect.com/product/place-and-play-32/ https://www.visionect.com/product/place-and-play-32/ - I think this is what the person used the other day It's essentially plug-and-play - no major technical skill required to use it
- louwrentius 6y ago
  Refresh rate: 750 ms (4 bit full screen) / 100 ms (1 bit partial) Doesn't seem to be in the same league if we factor in refresh rates. Doesn't seem to be usable as a monitor. But it would perfectly work for refreshing a newspaper every hour. :)
  - tyler109 6y ago
    Yes but the Dasung monitor is much faster
    - bbarnett 6y ago
      I bought a current model on Amazon, about 6 months ago, but was really disappointed. I have a rooted Nook Glowlight, years old, yet I find it much better. The Dasung had several 'modes' you could choose, but none worked well. Worse, their software is closed source, is fairly buggy, and requires root for zero reason. I felt very uncomfortable about installing it, and didn't. https://www.reddit.com/r/Paperlike/comments/au0yuc/dasung_on_linux/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Paperlike/comments/au0yuc/dasung_on... Without the software installed, you have to manually hit the 'refresh' button. This is done to clear up errant pixels aka a screen flash. Yet the refresh process was slow, so to test, rather than let their questionable software do it, I hit the manual button on the monitor. The flash on/off was highly annoying, and I couldn't imagine reading text, coding, working this way once the software was installed. Customer service from dasung was non-existent. I had to return it. I so much want an e-ink display.
      - tyler109 6y ago
        There is many hacks to make Dasung work for you: https://forum.ei2030.org/t/best-dasung-eink-monitor-setup/42/4 https://forum.ei2030.org/t/best-dasung-eink-monitor-setup/42...
  - BillinghamJ 6y ago
    Yes it definitely can't be a monitor - it doesn't accept any kind of video input, syncs over wifi etc.
- Redoubts 6y ago
  > It's essentially plug-and-play Doesn’t it require a cloud service subscription to drive, or failing that, locally hosting their cloud service to drive?
louwrentius 6y ago
That was this one (Medium Paywall) https://onezero.medium.com/the-morning-paper-revisited-35b407822494 https://onezero.medium.com/the-morning-paper-revisited-35b40...
- nyolfen 6y ago
  https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
- martin_a 6y ago
  https://outline.com/qWVkuf https://outline.com/qWVkuf
barbs 6y ago
Here's the link to said HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25063726 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25063726
Shivetya 6y ago
and here I would be happy with a wall just playing old fashioned static and then position furniture in front of it as if it were an ordinary wall. I am just reminded of various sci fi type shows and movies where the outside world was simply a colorful screen that changed periodically if at all. this type of use could make even the most boxed in apartments much more livable

BillinghamJ 6y ago

The Visionect one is around the same price as this but substantially larger - https://www.visionect.com/product/place-and-play-32/ https://www.visionect.com/product/place-and-play-32/ - I think this is what the person used the other day It's essentially plug-and-play - no major technical skill required to use it

louwrentius 6y ago
Refresh rate: 750 ms (4 bit full screen) / 100 ms (1 bit partial) Doesn't seem to be in the same league if we factor in refresh rates. Doesn't seem to be usable as a monitor. But it would perfectly work for refreshing a newspaper every hour. :)
- tyler109 6y ago
  Yes but the Dasung monitor is much faster
  - bbarnett 6y ago
    I bought a current model on Amazon, about 6 months ago, but was really disappointed. I have a rooted Nook Glowlight, years old, yet I find it much better. The Dasung had several 'modes' you could choose, but none worked well. Worse, their software is closed source, is fairly buggy, and requires root for zero reason. I felt very uncomfortable about installing it, and didn't. https://www.reddit.com/r/Paperlike/comments/au0yuc/dasung_on_linux/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Paperlike/comments/au0yuc/dasung_on... Without the software installed, you have to manually hit the 'refresh' button. This is done to clear up errant pixels aka a screen flash. Yet the refresh process was slow, so to test, rather than let their questionable software do it, I hit the manual button on the monitor. The flash on/off was highly annoying, and I couldn't imagine reading text, coding, working this way once the software was installed. Customer service from dasung was non-existent. I had to return it. I so much want an e-ink display.
    - tyler109 6y ago
      There is many hacks to make Dasung work for you: https://forum.ei2030.org/t/best-dasung-eink-monitor-setup/42/4 https://forum.ei2030.org/t/best-dasung-eink-monitor-setup/42...
- BillinghamJ 6y ago
  Yes it definitely can't be a monitor - it doesn't accept any kind of video input, syncs over wifi etc.
Redoubts 6y ago
> It's essentially plug-and-play Doesn’t it require a cloud service subscription to drive, or failing that, locally hosting their cloud service to drive?

louwrentius 6y ago

That was this one (Medium Paywall) https://onezero.medium.com/the-morning-paper-revisited-35b407822494 https://onezero.medium.com/the-morning-paper-revisited-35b40...

nyolfen 6y ago
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
martin_a 6y ago
https://outline.com/qWVkuf https://outline.com/qWVkuf

barbs 6y ago

Here's the link to said HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25063726 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25063726

Shivetya 6y ago

and here I would be happy with a wall just playing old fashioned static and then position furniture in front of it as if it were an ordinary wall. I am just reminded of various sci fi type shows and movies where the outside world was simply a colorful screen that changed periodically if at all. this type of use could make even the most boxed in apartments much more livable